Chicken and Dumplings - Family Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 each bone in Chicken Breasts
• 2 each Celery ribs with leaves Cut into 1/2 in pieces
• 2 each Carrot Cut into 1/2 in pieces
• 1 each Onion Halved and Sliced
• 3 sprigs Parsley Rough chopped
• 2 sprigs Fresh rosemary stripped and chopped
• 2 teaspoons Salt
• 1/4 teaspoon peppercorns
• 2 cups Chicken Broth
• 3 Tablespoons Butter
• 3 Tablespoons Flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 1/2 cup All purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoons salt
• 3 Tablespoons Shortening
• 1/4 cup Milk A little more might be necessary

Instructions

1. Place chicken, celery, carrot, onion, parsley, salt, rosemary, peppercorn, and chicken broth, in dutch oven. Heat to boil, cover and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 50 minutes. Remove chicken from broth.
2. In a separate pan melt butter over medium heat, add flour, cook and stir until smooth and bubbly about 1 minute. Stir in milk, stir and cook until slightly thickened, add some of the chicken broth. Add entire mix to chicken broth, stir to incorporate.
3. Remove chicken from bone, breaking into small pieces, add back to chicken broth.
4. Dumplings:
5. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt into food processor, add shortening. Using several pulses mix to resemble a coarse meal. Put flour mix in a bowl, add milk and stir just until mix comes together. You should have a fairly soft dough, if it is to stiff add a bit more milk.
6. Raise temperature on broth to a boil, add dumplings by the spoonful to boiling broth, reduce heat to rapid simmer and cook uncovered for 10 minutes, cover and cook an additional 20 minutes.